I sat down briefly with Jon 'Maddog' Hall[0] in Taipei in 2001, where Computex was about to happen. He had retired from his position as a career technical exec

I sat down briefly with Jon 'Maddog' Hall[0] in Taipei in 2001, where Computex was about to happen. He had retired from his position as a career technical executive at Digital and was enjoying very much touring the world in shorts, beard and sandals promoting Linux and open source. I had interviewed him a year earlier in Sydney and we ran in to each each other by mistake. I was a young kid sourcing hardware for building embedded Linux PC104 systems. The key thing he said to me was that Linux was going to dominate embedded. How right he was. 2004: Ubuntu initial release. 2005: Maemo (Linux kernel) appeared in Nokia. 2007: iPhone (also unix kernel) appeared and Nokia (prior incumbent) peaked. 2008: Android (Linux kernel) appeared. The rest, as they say, is history. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)